That's not Monday-morning quarterbacking. That's called reading a scouting report -- authored by former U.S. Secretary of Defense in the early 1990s when he explained that an invasion of Iraq would result in the exact same disastrous scenario that unfolded after the 2003 invasion.
Fact - Saddam had plans to reinvigorate his WMD programs when the sanctions were lifted. The sanctions were falling apart when we invaded.
Fact - Saddam was negotiating with Al Queda before we invaded. They had not reached agreement yet. Then we invaded.
I'd be curious to see your sources for these "facts."
One thing President Bush did not anticipate - The incredible hostility of the Establishment Media, willing, and urging, an American defeat rather than allow a Republican president to win a war.
If he didn't anticipate that, then he had no business running anything in his life more complicated than a lemonade stand. Blaming the "Establishment Media" for losing a war is like blaming misogyny or Russian hacking for Hillary Clinton's loss in 2016.
But why respond to that at all? You've already said they are meaningless to you.
One thing President Bush did not anticipate - The incredible hostility of the Establishment Media, willing, and urging, an American defeat rather than allow a Republican president to win a war.
“If he didn’t anticipate that, then he had no business running anything in his life more complicated than a lemonade stand. Blaming the “Establishment Media” for losing a war is like blaming misogyny or Russian hacking for Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016.”
Hard to believe you are serious about that. The Establishment Media has been perhaps the biggest power in American Politics for 60 years.
Russian hacking? Missogyny? A joke.
Many serious people did not anticipate the willingness of the Establishment Media to push for a U.S. loss. 82 of 208 Democrats voted to authorize the war. The total vote was 297 to 133.
The Left, and Establishment Media (but I repeat myself) lurched into unknown territory since W. Bush was elected in 2000.